FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 26, 2010
For more information, please contact: James Babb (610-574-1222 or [email protected]) or George Donnelly (941-538-6399 or [email protected]).
TSA Blinks in Face of We Won’t Fly and Opt Out Day Campaigns
TSA Opts Out of Opt Out Day by Turning off Scanners
Philadelphia, PA – Thanksgiving travelers opted out of commercial air travel in large numbers across the country on Opt Out Day as reports came in of eerily quiet airports, shorter than usual security lines, swamped bus and train stations and 94 per cent of travelers opting to drive instead of fly.
We Won’t Fly has received multiple reports of the federal government’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) shutting down full body scanners, selecting fewer people for secondary screening, using less invasive patdowns and being unusually friendly and helpful to flyers.
“Almost everyone is being sent through the metal detectors,” commented flyer and We Won’t Fly fan Stephanie H. on Facebook. “Also, a huge bank of cameras that wasn’t there 2 weeks ago (also last week, everyone went through the scanners).”
We Won’t Fly achieved its primary goal for Opt Out Day. Millions of travelers opted out of flying entirely, exactly as our campaign urges them to do. The TSA rolled back its security theater, if only for a day. Working in tandem with allies across the nation in a fledgling grassroots movement, We Won’t Fly has, in just over two weeks, achieved the following victories:
- Travelers voted en masse with their feet on Opt Out Day. The American Automobile Association (AAA) reports that 94 per cent of Thanksgiving travelers opted out of flying altogether in favor of driving. That’s a significant increase over last year. Roads and train and bus stations were swamped while airports were eerily quiet.
- The TSA dialed back its security theater at airports around the country on Opt Out Day, November 24. Reports are that TSA checkpoints reduced their exposure to public backlash with local changes such as: (1) turning off scanners; (2) diverting travelers to traditional non-invasive screening; (3) selecting fewer people for secondary screening; and (4) using less invasive patdowns. Of those who flew and were selected for the scanners, many opted out.
- The TSA retreated on “enhanced” patdowns for children with a vague statement that they could get “modified” patdowns in certain cases. They also agreed to exempt pilots from the new “enhanced” patdowns and full body scanners.
- TSA Administrator John Pistole was forced to justify the scanning and groping on national television over and over again. He toned down Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary Janet Napolitano’s initial statement telling concerned individuals to not fly if they didn’t like the new security theater.
- Pistole admitted that passenger dignity is an important consideration, echoing one of We Won’t Fly’s most basic objections.
- With little time and a shoestring budget, We Won’t Fly organized educational outreaches at 27 airports around the country where members of our network distributed flyers about the new TSA security theater. We appeared in print, on the radio and on camera around the nation and in 12 international markets as necessary to tell the traveling public that they are not alone in their repulsion to invasive TSA procedures.
- In just 8 days, public opinion moved from 81 per cent support of the new TSA security theater to 61 per cent disapproval. Zogby’s latest poll reports 48 per cent seeking alternatives to flying in support of We Won’t Fly’s boycott.
“For weeks we’ve been telling people to avoid air travel altogether.” said We Won’t Fly co-founder Jim Babb in a CNN interview. “Clearly, many heeded our warning to avoid both the nude scan and the groping.”
We Won’t Fly, and indeed many allies across the nation, have made enormous progress in educating the public. The TSA has changed its tone. It stepped back from its new security theater, raising the question of whether it is necessary at all. Millions joined our boycott. The TSA blinked on Opt Out Day. Our efforts continue.
###
We Won’t Fly is a consumer grassroots effort to encourage travelers to stop flying until the new TSA security theater has been replaced with real passenger security, and to demand that airlines join with concerned consumers so that, together, we can develop effective solutions that don’t trample our basic human dignity and privacy. For more information, visit WeWontFly.com.
38 Responses to TSA Blinks in Face of We Won’t Fly and Opt Out Day Campaigns (Press Release)
Let’s Connect
I came up with these funny t-shirts that depict the TSA security Theater.
https://shop.doctortees.com/Satire-Attire_c15.htm
Enjoy!
That’s the way to go!
We flew back from the U.K. and were barely checked before departure. It seems from past incidents, in the U.S. that these events did not originate in the U.S. Therefore, we should not be singiled out so strongly over here.
This effort needs to continue until these machines are out of the airports and TSA has a clear understanding that anyone who is groped will be arrested!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t touch my Junk!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thromby Air has developed a new passenger screening device intended to enhance your airport experience, and relieve airport security personnel of the onerous task of “touching your junk”…
Thromby Air – In Touch With Security
I am so glad that many chose not to fly! I’ll never fly again unless these ridiculous, unnecessary procedures are rescinded. It’ll be interesting to see what happens in the coming weeks, especially if significant numbers choose not to fly and the airlines start losing even more money.
My daughter-in-law is having a baby in March… looking for a ride on someone’s charter or some other sort of ride-sharing arrangement from South Florida to Bangor Washington, mid to late March. Please contact me if you have a group going that way, or need your vehicle transported along even part of this route. Thanks!
I have been through the scanner several times in the past and had no problem with it. I’m 58, white,slightly overweight, and a pastor’s wife. The people running these are not out to get their jollies. Our government wants to keep a disaster from happening and loss of life. Only a very small percentage of people are hand searched, and that is if they refuse to be scanned, or something shows up in the scan. Tell me, do you think profiling is a better solution? I don’t. I also think that if we go to profiling, the terrorists will recruit grandmotherly types to do their dirty work. How would you feel if a plane was blown up due to less security? If people don’t like it, they have a choice to not fly, but I personally prefer safety over modesty.
BEHAVIORAL profiling, as opposed to racial or other types of profiling, works quite well for the Israeli security system. Asking people questions to see if they get nervous is much less intrusive and WORKS. Don’t mistake these heavy-handed tactics for real protection. It’s a snow job… and the terrorists know it. They are laughing at us because they know this won’t stop them.
Sorry, but you lost your own argument. TSA shut down almost all of the scanners across the country over the Thanksgiving holidays. How many American planes blew up?
There are better, safer, more constitutional methods of security. They may cost more, but flyers will just have to pay for them. No amount of safety is worth the sacrificing of our constitutional rights. This should not even be an option.
I’ve been through these things in Europe and quit flying there after I found out what they were even though my work requires it. I cannot choose another form of transportation across the ocean. I’m not going to intentionally run around and expose myself to x-rays. I get plenty from other sources such as medical and just flying above the clouds and leaks from all these machines. The chances of being a victim of a terrorist attack and getting cancer from these machines are about the same. I prefer the former to the latter if given a choice. I’ve had people close to me slowly die from cancer and I would gladly jump from a plane to avoid such a death. They have infrared imaging technology that is far superior to these crazy machines and use a passive technology with no radiation. They also have dogs that can effectively find any type of explosive. The idea that some granny can be recruited to blow herself up on a plane is a stretch at best. The way these crazy security protocols are set up anybody can walk into an airport with enough C-4 to take out the entire terminal and stand in line of hundreds of people waiting for screening and detonate themselves and take out the passengers of several planes.
If you feel comfortable with these machines that’s all well and good because that is what it is designed to do. Give the minions a false sense of security while alienating our constitutional rights. Soon enough your husband will be out of a job as the socialist state being imposed on us will ban religion as well.
I too am in ministry but at least I have enough faith in the Holy Spirit to know that if it is HIS time to take me, then it does not matter when or where it will happen.
As a Health Care practitioner with years of working with staged 4 cancer patients, that it is far better to be blown up than languish in pain on our way out of this world.
X ray has been shown over and over again to be a primary cause of cancer!
There are countries using relatively safe and less expensive to purchase devises that are far better at discovering explosives and less invaisive…
Those who’s income is predicated on frequent flying are at risk and so are you every time you submit to unnecessary radiation.
Sorry, but as one of our founders said, those who give up freedom for security deserve and will have neither. There are better ways than searching for an endless variety of things. Not to mention, our Constitution guarantees the right against unreasonable search. And the one doing the search is supposed to know what they are searching for and have some reason to suspect the one they are searching. Our government either has no idea what to search for, so they are just probing everyone in interest of protecting Americans from errant grandmas and returning veterans while Muslims get the pass for fear we might be accused of “singling them out.” It is not the job of the government to hold your hand from cradle to grave and protect you against every possible incident. No one wants a terrorist attack but that doesn’t mean we begin submitting to body cavity searches to prevent it. But that’s coming.
People just don’t get it. This stuff has very little to do with security and a lot for making money by those who created and invested in the technology–people like George Sorros who make no secret of their goal to destroy America. It has everything to do with controlling every aspect of our lives, and if you don’t see that, you’re part of the problem. Are you also in favor of S510 (the food safety bill) which will control every aspect of what you eat, eliminate the small farmer, make it a crime to have your own garden, and control 100 % of the nation’s seed supply? —and do you believe the real purpose of such a bill is to prevent a future problem with spinach or tainted dog food (which actually came from China) or artichokes? Wake up. All these on the surface rosy proposals are intended to box us in, take over everything, and leave us with only what the government thinks we should have. That’s not what America is all about.
Then you should feel free to get felt up and shot up with harmful rays… the rest of us see through this b.s. and opt to not get groped.
The underwear bomber was a known terrorist associate, he had no passport, paid cash, had no luggage, and was initially refused boarding. Someone over-rode the refusal, the TSA knew who he was and what flight he was on, but allowed him into U.S. airspace. If the TSA won’t stop someone who they knew was a terrorist and didn’t have proper documentation, you think they’re going to protect you on your flight by groping women, breaking urostomy bags, and harassing mothers over breast milk?
I’m all for your freedom to have some young pervert feel you up, that’s your right, but the point of this site is to share the message the rest of us feel.
My opposition to the new TSA screening procedures does not have to do with my modesty, nor am I overly concerned about the levels of radiation, however, common sense tells us that they have NOT tested these things enough for their assurance of safety to mean anything.
No, my opposition stems from the fact that this is another effort by the government to erode our freedoms. The Federal government has been attacking the Bill of Rights for quite some time now, and this is a GIGANTIC step in that direction. The 4th Amendment is just as important as the 1st Amendment and the 2nd Amendment. And the Federal Government is attacking all of them, and therefore the Federal Government is attacking US!
In addition, I contend that the scanners that are being installed in the airports are producing CHILD PORNOGRAPHY every time a child’s nude body is seen on a computer screen. Remember, the government is punishing young girls for sending nude pictures of themselves on cell phones.
Furthermore, there is a possibility that one of the prime motives for installing these scanners is because Michael Chertoff, the former Head of Homeland Security is MAKING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS BY HAVING THESE THINGS INSTALLED!
However, one of the most alarming things about this issue, something that you have NOT been told, is that the Underwear Bomber Incident may have been a set up for propaganda purposes. Google Kurt Haskell. Haskell was an eyewitness aboard Flight 253 from Amsterdam and reports that the Underwear Bomber was “escorted” by a “Handler” was able to bypass security and was allowed to board the plane without a passport. Furthermore, other eyewitnesses report that the U/B appeared to be drugged or in a trance-like state and remained expressionless throughout the incident, EVEN AFTER RECEIVING THIRD DEGREE BURNS ON HIS LEGS AND GENITALS.
What’s more, the MEDIA is obviously acting as a propaganda wing of the government in this matter, they have reported flawed polls that indicate that a majority of Americans support the TSA’s new procedures, without reporting that other polls, including a recent poll by Zogby International show that the overwhelming majority of people OPPOSE the TSA’s new actions. Furthermore, only a few media sources have reported that the TSA drastically reduced the usage of the scanners during OPT OUT day, and reverted back to the much less invasive body search during that event.
THERE IS NO REASON TO TRUST THE GOVERNMENT / TSA BECAUSE THEY HAVE PROVEN THEMSELVES TO BE UNTRUSTWORTHY.
This is excellent news. I’m still not flying any time soon, I’d rather walk a thousand miles than be bombarded with radiation or groped against my will, but it’s good to see that a difference has been made by the national Opt-Out Day display.
Personally I’m impressed as heck with how quickly We Won’t Fly got off the ground and into the mediawaves. What’s being spun as a non-event by disappointed media looking for meaty altercations was in truth an astounding show of social media power. Thanks, guys, for putting the concerns of so many of us ‘little people’ out there.
George & James- thank you for all you have collected and shared the past two weeks. You focus and effort to explain the new TSA rules has helped many citizens make an informed choice about air travel this season. Many of us have read the personal TSA stories shared here and thought “not I”.
Again, thank you for your providing a central site for sharing information openly.
Could TSA Order Doctors Arrested—That Question Health Risks Of X-ray Back Scanners?
Increasingly doctors are publicly raising concerns and questions about potential health risks caused by TSA Back Scanners. The medical community has repeatedly asked the Obama Administration to allow an (independent) group of medical professionals and X-ray experts, familiar with affects of X-rays on the human body, to study, evaluate potential skin cancer and other health risks posed by TSA scanners. The question now being asked, could an alleged recent TSA Administrative Directive shutdown doctors speaking out?
Alert—Recent TSA Administrative Directive: “Opt-Outters To Be Considered Domestic Extremists.” It is alleged a new TSA Directive includes TSA taking action not against just “Opt-Outters To Be Considered Domestic Extremists” but against non-air passengers that speak out against TSA screening processes. If this report is accurate, (see story’s web address below), recent terminology in a TSA memo is unimaginable in America, unimaginable in a free society. The alleged TSA memo states actions that may be taken by TSA against anyone who questions TSA Scanners and Invasive Pat Downs. The TSA memo in many respects mirror actions taken by the German Reich Government in 1933 in the name of national security. Germany, overnight (retroactively) branded lawful Citizens as extremists and terrorists for exercising free speech. The TSA memo was reported written so broadly, anyone who actively objects, engages in or causes others to object or elicit support that opposes the TSA screening process; or disrupts TSA enhanced security procedures (OPT-Outters) may be classified as an Extremist or Terrorist. Like Germany, that label can apply to anyone, including lawful activists, bloggers, writers, doctors, news casters, any group or reporter e.g. (Alternative News) that oppose TSA pat downs and scans. Is TSA laying the groundwork for arrests? See TSA Administrative Directive:
https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/tsa-administrative-directive-opt-outters-to-be-considered-domestic-extremists_11242010
Consider Hitler’s 1933 laws below. Especially Section 1 and Section 4. Sound Familiar?
DECREE OF THE REICH PRESIDENT FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE PEOPLE AND STATE
Note: Based on translations by State Department, National Socialism, 1942 PP. 215-17, and Pollak, J.K., and Heneman, H.J., The Hitler Decrees, (1934), pp. 10-11.7
In virtue of Section 48 (2) of the German Constitution, the following is decreed as a defensive measure against Communist acts of Violence, endangering the state:
Section 1
Sections 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124, and 153 of the Constitution of the German Reich are suspended until further notice. Thus, restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press, on the right of assembly and the right of association, and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic, and telephonic communications, and warrants for house-searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.
Section 2
If in a state the measures necessary for the restoration of public security and order are not taken, the Reich Government may temporarily take over the powers of the highest state authority.
Section 4
Whoever provokes, or appeals for or incites to the disobedience of the orders given out by the supreme state authorities or the authorities subject to then for the execution of this decree, or the orders given by the Reich Government according to Section 2, is punishable—insofar as the deed, is not covered by the decree with more severe punishment and with imprisonment of not less that one month, or with a fine from 150 up to 15,000 Reichsmarks.
Who ever endangers human life by violating Section 1, is to be punished by sentence to a penitentiary, under mitigating circumstances with imprisonment of not less than six months and, when violation causes the death of a person, with death, under mitigating circumstances with a penitentiary sentence of not less that two years. In addition the sentence my include confiscation of property.
Whoever provokes an inciter to or act contrary to public welfare is to be punished with a penitentiary sentence, under mitigating circumstances, with imprisonment of not less than three months.
Section 5
The crimes which under the Criminal Code are punishable with penitentiary for life are to be punished with death: i.e., in Sections 81 (high treason), 229 (poisoning), 306 (arson), 311 (explosion), 312 (floods), 315, paragraph 2 (damage to railroad properties, 324 (general poisoning).
Insofar as a more severe punishment has not been previously provided for, the following are punishable with death or with life imprisonment or with imprisonment not to exceed 15 years:
1. Anyone who undertakes to kill the Reich President or a member or a commissioner of the Reich Government or of a state government, or provokes to such a killing, or agrees to commit it, or accepts such an offer, or conspires with another for such a murder;
2. Anyone who under Section 115 (2) of the Criminal Code (serious rioting) or of Section 125 (2) of the Criminal Code (serious disturbance of the peace) commits the act with arms or cooperates consciously and intentionally with an armed person;
3. Anyone who commits a kidnapping under Section 239 of the Criminal with the intention of making use of the kidnapped person as a hostage in the political struggle.
Section 6
This decree enters in force on the day of its promulgation.
Reich President
Reich Chancellor
Reich Minister of the Interior
Reich Minister of Justice
Fire the Total Sexual Assault Chief Molester John Pistole.
Holiday travelers are a different breed. These are the folks who rarely travel thus most of them won’t care much about security screening because they figure, I can deal with this just this one time. Alot of these folks really don’t care. Sad but true. Regarding the backlash TSA received, Pistole & Napolitano knew if they didn’t do something fast, in a short time, the flying population would begin to vanish. We still have the Christmas holiday ahead.
There is no doubt TSA switched gears at the last minute to the ” honeymoon ” phase of security screening. Polite and friendly. Instructing TSA employees to vastly reduce current security procedures or avoid them all together and send folks thru the metal detector only. Less scanning, less pat downs and less intrusive pat downs……and be super friendly. This is obviously what occurred at many airports.
Now the frequent travelers will come back out again. These are the people who truly have the power to shape security screening going forward. I hope they sink their teeth into TSA ( in the crotch of course ) and never let go. What a scam !!!
[...] – TSA Blinks [...]
I have been surprised by the lack of objection by the American people to the ongoing sexual assaults and pedophile behavior. Part of this might be the language and I am glad to see that is starting to change. But we have to stop allowing people to call sexual assault an enhanced pat down. I can well understand that making a formal complaint to the police about a sexual assault would make you miss your flight however some sort of complaint must be made by lots and lots of people.
There must also be a concerted effort to stop pedophiles from molesting our children for their own personal gratification. If they aren’t getting sexual gratification, they are certainly getting financial gratification by way of a pay packet but that doesn’t make the behavior any more acceptable. Sexual assault on a minor is still pedophilic behavior and those who perpetrate such criminal behavior must be held to account. As it is a government mandated then one way to show your displeasure would be to put photographs with pedophile written underneath their face all over the place, both hard copy and online of everyone who is in a position of authority to enforce this from those who voted for it to those who do the touching of children’s genitals.
The routine humiliation of women who are menstruating and people of any age needing to wear diapers or who have some other medical or war time metal within their bodies is also both horrific and totally unacceptable.
How can you consider yourself in the US a country that values freedom or is in any way advanced is beyond me. The country’s acceptance of such behavior is beyond belief.
A molecular biochemist points out the flaws in the TSA safety reports:
“…the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory criticized other reports from NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) and a group called Medical and Health Physics Consulting, for testing the machine while one of the two X-ray sources was disabled…
There also appears to be unit conversion error in the Appendix of the report, which was recently cited by the FDA in response to the UCSF scientist’s letter of concern, which might mean that the relative skin dose is 1000-fold higher than the report indicates…”
https://myhelicaltryst.blogspot.com/2010/11/tsa-x-ray-backscatter-body-scanner.html
There is something wrong with this latest blog you have put up. Each site I have visited for the travel statistics says otherwise. Air travel is up this Thanksgiving despite higher airfares, new TSA procedures, and your failed Protest Theater. It seems like you are posting false information.
Post some links to back up your accusations. Are they credible? Or are you just inclined to believe what they want you to believe?
Great work everyone! It’s great that our citizens who seem so often to be apathetic, are still willing to take a stand! I think the challenge here is going to be to keep the momentum with the news media.
Keep them honest, and spread the word when the TSA goes back to the invasive methods!
I might suggest a slight clarification to your “Don’t Fly” recommendation. Some of us choose to fly “General Aviation” aircraft — that is aircraft outside of scheduled and unscheduled commercial aircraft and this is becoming an increasingly attractive option for travelers.
General Aviation pilots and passengers operate on a significantly different (and frankly better) security model in which security is established by the personal connections between people. There are no TSA scans, no X-rays, no pat downs, no body scanners, no liquids in small bottles. Bring what you want on the plane (subject to the pilot’s approval and FAA regulations), leave when you want and show up at an airport that might be much closer to your destination. Remember that of the over 17,000 landing facilities within the US, only several hundred have any sort of commercial airline service!
As an example, I recently made a trip from my home town of Huntsville, AL to Greenville, SC with two coworkers. The trip took less than two hours each way (even including time on the ground) in my Diamond DA-40, and we were able to get to our destination, have our meetings and return all in time for a 2pm meeting back in Huntsville. In order to fly commercially, we would have had to arrive an hour early at the airport, fly to Atlanta, wait some more, fly to Greenville, and hope there were no problems with any connecting flights. With all three of us going, our round trip all-in cost for the trip was about $300, or about $100 per person — less than a coach ticket would have been.
A good starting point for those interested in General Aviation is the Aircraft Owner Pilot Association (AOPA) at https://www.aopa.org
Mark
Thanks for that awesome contribution. As the wife a person who once shared a small plane with a close friend and took occasional flights here and there, the first thing I thought of was private planes–which I guess you are calling General Aviation. No doubt you are the correct one. I think we need to start an organization in which we link people up with General aviation pilots. Of course, the government will try to get involved and put a stop to it at some point because they will site an increased risk of accidents due to more planes in the air, I suppose.
All this new security and false terrorist crap has me really fed up with the govt. More people die in car crashes than any terrorist attack. Yet cars aren’t outlawed. Anyway, my wife and I often travel to and from Asia to visit her family, so we are left with fewer options. Are there any passenger ships that travel across the world like planes do? If so can you provide some info on them so we as well as other citizens won’t be treated like common criminals at airports? Thank you much for your consideration and we fully support your efforts. Well done!
Could TSA Order Doctors Arrested—That Question Health Risks Of X-ray Back Scanners?
Increasingly doctors are publicly raising concerns and questions about potential health risks caused by TSA Back Scanners. The medical community has repeatedly asked the Obama Administration to allow an (independent) group of medical professionals and X-ray experts, familiar with affects of X-rays on the human body, to study, evaluate potential skin cancer and other health risks posed by TSA scanners. The question now being asked, could an alleged recent TSA Administrative Directive shutdown doctors speaking out?
Alert—Recent TSA Administrative Directive: “Opt-Outters To Be Considered Domestic Extremists.” It is alleged a new TSA Directive includes TSA taking action not against just “Opt-Outters To Be Considered Domestic Extremists” but against non-air passengers that speak out against TSA screening processes. If this report is accurate, (see story’s web address below), recent terminology in a TSA memo is unimaginable in America, unimaginable in a free society. The alleged TSA memo states actions that may be taken by TSA against anyone who questions TSA Scanners and Invasive Pat Downs. The TSA memo in many respects mirror actions taken by the German Reich Government in 1933 in the name of national security. Germany, overnight (retroactively) branded lawful Citizens as extremists and terrorists for exercising free speech. The TSA memo was reported written so broadly, anyone who actively objects, engages in or causes others to object or elicit support that opposes the TSA screening process; or disrupts TSA enhanced security procedures (OPT-Outters) may be classified as an Extremist or Terrorist. Like Germany, that label can apply to anyone, including lawful activists, bloggers, writers, doctors, news casters, any group or reporter e.g. (Alternative News) that oppose TSA pat downs and scans. Is TSA laying the groundwork for arrests? See TSA Administrative Directive:
https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/tsa-administrative-directive-opt-outters-to-be-considered-domestic-extremists_11242010
Consider Hitler’s 1933 laws below. Especially Section 1 and Section 4. Sound Familiar?
DECREE OF THE REICH PRESIDENT FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE PEOPLE AND STATE
Note: Based on translations by State Department, National Socialism, 1942 PP. 215-17, and Pollak, J.K., and Heneman, H.J., The Hitler Decrees, (1934), pp. 10-11.7
In virtue of Section 48 (2) of the German Constitution, the following is decreed as a defensive measure against Communist acts of Violence, endangering the state:
Section 1
Sections 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124, and 153 of the Constitution of the German Reich are suspended until further notice. Thus, restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press, on the right of assembly and the right of association, and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic, and telephonic communications, and warrants for house-searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.
Section 2
If in a state the measures necessary for the restoration of public security and order are not taken, the Reich Government may temporarily take over the powers of the highest state authority.
Section 4
Whoever provokes, or appeals for or incites to the disobedience of the orders given out by the supreme state authorities or the authorities subject to then for the execution of this decree, or the orders given by the Reich Government according to Section 2, is punishable—insofar as the deed, is not covered by the decree with more severe punishment and with imprisonment of not less that one month, or with a fine from 150 up to 15,000 Reichsmarks.
Who ever endangers human life by violating Section 1, is to be punished by sentence to a penitentiary, under mitigating circumstances with imprisonment of not less than six months and, when violation causes the death of a person, with death, under mitigating circumstances with a penitentiary sentence of not less that two years. In addition the sentence my include confiscation of property.
Whoever provokes an inciter to or act contrary to public welfare is to be punished with a penitentiary sentence, under mitigating circumstances, with imprisonment of not less than three months.
Section 5
The crimes which under the Criminal Code are punishable with penitentiary for life are to be punished with death: i.e., in Sections 81 (high treason), 229 (poisoning), 306 (arson), 311 (explosion), 312 (floods), 315, paragraph 2 (damage to railroad properties, 324 (general poisoning).
Insofar as a more severe punishment has not been previously provided for, the following are punishable with death or with life imprisonment or with imprisonment not to exceed 15 years:
1. Anyone who undertakes to kill the Reich President or a member or a commissioner of the Reich Government or of a state government, or provokes to such a killing, or agrees to commit it, or accepts such an offer, or conspires with another for such a murder;
2. Anyone who under Section 115 (2) of the Criminal Code (serious rioting) or of Section 125 (2) of the Criminal Code (serious disturbance of the peace) commits the act with arms or cooperates consciously and intentionally with an armed person;
3. Anyone who commits a kidnapping under Section 239 of the Criminal with the intention of making use of the kidnapped person as a hostage in the political struggle.
Section 6
This decree enters in force on the day of its promulgation.
Reich President
Reich Chancellor
Reich Minister of the Interior
Reich Minister of Justice
We must not let down our “fight for travel freedom!” The gvt is aggressively working to destroy our most basic freedoms.
This past week was just the beginning. Continue to refuse to fly if there are full body scanners in your airport or that airport to which you are flying!
I’[ve seen too many well intentioned people let down their defenses and then,,,, everything goes back to the same old bolderdash! WE MUST PERSEVERE…..
[...] reports you’ll see on Faux News, CNN, ABC and the likes in the coming days/weeks, the “We Won’t Fly” campaign is off to a solid start. Your independent research and “Critical [...]
Nice job, guys. I honestly haven’t followed the news much on this – I’m so tired of being in the news myself and all the hype, I just wanted to enjoy some time with the family. But from what I have seen and heard (despite the media propaganda) it looks like a lot of people didn’t even show up to fly this year. As you know, that’s what I’ve been hoping for and advocating all along – not just to protest or put pressure on the system, but so people wouldn’t subject themselves or especially their children to these harmful and criminal procedures. Again, well done, and thank you!
I flew from Kansas City (KCI) to San Diego on Tuesday, Nov. 23rd. Was selected for the scanner and opted out. I was taken to the side and the TSA agent was adamant that we remained in full view of my belongings.
He then proceeded to pat me down, although he only used his palms on my arms, legs, and chest (I’m male). He only touched by buttocks with the back of his hand which he explicitly said he was going to do before he began. It was very obvious to me that this particular agent was going out of his way to not give me the aggressive ‘groping’ pat down.
We need to keep up the pressure on the TSA!
Go wewontfly!!!!!Good job all. I’m doing my part. Calling and writing congress reps, senators, airports, airlines. Learned a few things. Airline rep this morning said lots of travelers were calling with concerns over the scanning. Airports on Saturday (Houston Hobby and Houston George Bush Interncontnental) said that either wands were being used or scanners were idle. One of the reps said that there were lots of calls to the airport on whether the scanners were functioning before people committed to travel. You bet we are having an impact. My outrage story in particular? My 74-year-old father was recently interrogated, gestapo style, and treated as a major drug dealer suspect. His big crime was $3700 in his wallet. He said the TSA started backpedalling when they realized they’d gone too far with their questioning and that he was apparently just an ordinary person rather than a master criminal. TSA is off the reservation.
[...] York Times reporter’s pocket. Just like Adam Savage’s razor blades and the TSA’s partial abandonment of scanners and “enhanced” pat downs on Opt Out Day, this story adds to the overwhelming evidence that what the TSA does is just security theater. [...]
[...] if this is all for security, then who the hell are the TSA to put our lives on the line by rolling back security measures for Thanksgiving to combat the Opt Out Day protests? Who the hell do they think they are going lax on security when they feel like it and feel like [...]